Anduril Unveils Barracuda Family of Autonomous Air Vehicles | Aviation

The three weapons of the Barracuda family are optimized for affordable, hyper-scale production, says Anduril, and appears to match the details of the Enterprise Test Vehicles program.

Anduril industries has unveiled, on Sep. 12, 2024, a new family of air-breathing, software-defined expendable Autonomous Air Vehicles (AAVs), called Barracuda, which the company says is optimized for affordable, hyper-scale production. The family consists of three core models: Barracuda-100, Barracuda-250, and Barracuda-500.

Each increment offers increasing size, range and payload capacity, but all Barracudas are compatible with a host of payloads and employment mechanisms, support a variety of different missions, and provide warfighters with an adaptable and upgradeable capability to counter evolving threats, said Anduril.

“Barracuda-M is the munition configuration of Barracuda that delivers a more affordable, producible, available, and adaptable cruise missile capability than existing options available to warfighters today,” says the press release. “The Barracuda family of AAVs is designed to rebuild America’s arsenal of air-breathing precision-guided munitions and air vehicles.”

The press release, similarly to other recent programs, reflects on the fact that the United States need a high volume of munitions to…